Keeping Up With the Jones'

You can't.

You really can't.

Because you'll always be making comparisons on their scale. Yes, they'll have a bigger house than you. And go on trips to Italy! Because their parents make megabucks. Your parents don't.

You could try to fill that void by telling yourself that you are better in other areas. You're probably right. But that's a temporary fix. Comparisons aren't healthy. Stealthy, silent and subjective competition isn't either.

Be content.

Be content.

There is much more to value than what is perceived or known.

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Oh hey! This was my 150th blgo entry! Oooh celebrate. Woot. Woohoo yippee yeaaahh etc

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Canto Alla Vita

Dedicato a chi colpevole o innocente

perso in questo mare

si è arreso alla corrente

chi non è mai stato vincente?

Dedicato a chi aspetta una speranza

davanti ad un dolore

nel freddo di una stanza

Dedicato a chi cerca la sua libertà

Canto alla vita

alla sua bellezza

ad ogni sua ferita

ogni sua caressa

I sing to life and to it's tragic beauty

To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me

The rise and the fall; i've lived through it all

Dedicato a chi la sente inaridita

come fosse sabbia asciutta fra le dita

e la sente già finita

Canto alla vita

negli occhi tuoi riflessa

fragile e infinita

terra a noi promessa

Canto alla vita

canto a voce piena

a questo nostro viaggio

che ancora ci incatena

Ci chiama

Non dubitare mai

Non dubitare mai

Non lasciarla mai da sola

da sola

... ancora ...

Canto alla vita

alla sua bellezza

Canto alla vita

canto a voce piena

a questo nostro viaggio

che ancora ci incatena

Ci chiama... 

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How to make history

I think you must have heard this before: big or small, our actions will echo throughout eternity.

If you throw a pebble into a pond, the ripples will fade, but the lake is forever changed.

Right.

So who knows about it? No one. Apart from maybe the lake, if it had consciousness. And heaps of people throw stones into it. Nothing really changes.

The fact is, what we do now is almost obsolete. The people we meet, the places we visit, the phrases we say...maybe they will matter to one person. At most 3. And the stories will die out within 3 generations, if we're  that lucky. Maybe that person we affect may cause a chain reaction cumulating in something....big? Eventful? Who's to say, we'll not know then.

That isn't really the game changer, the history making act that people want for themselves.

I know that the above statement is true, but it isn't something I want for myself.

The alternative? Tricky, tricky.

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